Improvement in shoes



E. SHAW. k

SHOES.

No.177,288. Patented May 9,1876..

".PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTONv D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ELIJ-AH SHAW, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT in SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,288. dated May 9, 1876; application filed March 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ELIJAH SHAW, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification:

The objeetof my invention is to make a shoe without a back seam, and at the same time one that can be cut in a more economical way, and fit the foot and anklebetter than those previously out without a back seam.

The quarters or rear part is composed of three pieces, with the back part in such a manner as to form an outside counter, and at the same time give proper curve to the back of the shoe.

The ordinary way of cutting a shoe without a back seam has been to cut the quarter whole, and then crimp it, in order to form the curve of the back, or'iotherwise cutting a slot and putting in a gore, or cutting a slot on each side and putting in two gores. Any one skilled in the art of cutting shoes will readily see the economy of cutting shoes in this way, and the advantage of the symmetry of the curve of the back of the shoe.

There has always been a great difliculty in shoes with a back seam in their breaking, and the object of this shoe is to avoid that difliculty, and at the same time out a shoe more economically than one can be cut with a back sea-1n. r

Figure 1 is a view of a shoe made up; Fig. 2, a View of the vamp of a shoe; Fig. 3, a view of one of the quarters, and Fig.4 a view of another quarter of a shoe; and Fig. 5, a

view of the back piece.

A is the shoe; B B, the quarters of a shoe; D, the vamp; O, the backpart, forming the quarter when stitched together; E and F, G and H, the sides of the quarter and back piece, which are to be sewed together to form the quarter otla-shoe. T

I claim as my inventionv The quarters B B, in combination with back piece 0, in the form described, so that a shoe mayfie made of the same in the proper shape without crimping the back piece, substantiatly as set forth.,

ELIJAH SHAW. Witnesses:

J. B. SMITH, A. SOHATTENBERG. 

